The Faculty Lounge

Two broadcasts I saw/heard last Thursday gave me something to think about.  Like many others, I had eagerly (?) awaited Jon Stewart's much hyped interview with Jim Cramer on The…

Don't fuck with Texas.  Or at least not the fine police and peace officers of the Lonestar State.  Perhaps it's all the anxiety over declining morals of American society (wait…

A student passed this link to me - amusing video ruminating on what it would be like if we used EULA-like terms in everyday life ... Thanks, Mary!

Did you wake up feeling under the weather?  Got a case of the shakes?  Maybe a bit of breathlessness?  Nausea?  Perhaps excessive sweating and dry mouth?  Did you wake up ...

Full text here.What catches my eye is this:  "To the best of my recollection, my fraud began in the early 1990s.  At that time, the country was in a recession…

Need a reminder that we live in the greatest country in the world?An Afghan student journalist was arrested in 2007, accused of authoring and distributing an article discussing the role…

Last week, discussing the looming crisis for state sponsored 529 plans that offer prepaid tuition, I predicted that state universities would start to feel pressure to hold down tuitions.  After…

Do you believe:1) that absolute moral truth exists?2) the Bible is completely accurate in all of the principles it teaches?3) Satan is a real being or force, not merely symbolic?4)…

As Rick Garnett reports over at Prawfs, the AALS section on Constitutional Law is holding its second annual Steven G. Gey Call for Papers.   There are panel details over at…

Last week I suggested that the potent stigma preventing layoffs at top-shelf firms was melting away.  Thinking about the Latham & Watkins layoffs, I wrote: Latham is so large and…